tapir

tapir

: an animal that is like a pig with a long nose and short legs and that lives in tropical America and Southeast Asia

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Full Definition of TAPIR

: any of a genus (Tapirus) of herbivorous chiefly nocturnal perissodactyl mammals of tropical America and southeastern Asia from Myanmar to Sumatra that have a heavy sparsely hairy body and the snout and upper lip prolonged into a short flexible proboscis